Biography

Hengcan Shi is an Associate Professor at the College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University. Before that, he was a Research Fellow at Data Science & AI Department, Monash University， and a Senior Researcher at Tencent. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer vision from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2020. His research interests include image segmentation, object detection, machine learning and Vision+Language. He has served as reviewer for IEEE T-PAMI, IJCV, T-MM, T-CSVT and TIE. He is the Web Chair and Area Chair of ACM MM 2024 and PC member of CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML ICLR and NeurIPS.

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Publications (Selected)

LLMFormer: Large Language Model for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
Hengcan Shi, Son Duy Dao, Jianfei Cai
IJCV 2024

DifFUSER: Diffusion Model for Robust Multi-Sensor Fusion in 3D Object Detection and BEV Segmentation
Duy-Tho Le, Hengcan Shi, Jianfei Cai, Hamid Rezatofighi
ECCV 2024

JRDB-PanoTrack: An Open-world Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking Robotic Dataset in Crowded Human Environments
Duy-Tho Le, Chenhui Gou, Stavya Datta, Hengcan Shi, Ian Reid, Jianfei Cai, Hamid Rezatofighi
CVPR 2024

Unified open-vocabulary dense visual prediction
Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Jianfei Cai
TMM 2024

Transformer scale gate for semantic segmentation
Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Jianfei Cai
CVPR 2023

Class Enhancement Losses with Pseudo Labels for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
Son D Dao, Hengcan Shi, Dinh Phung, Jianfei Cai
TMM 2023

Class Enhancement Losses with Pseudo Labels for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation
Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Jianfei Cai
ACM MM 2023

CoactSeg: Learning from Heterogeneous Data for New Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation
Yicheng Wu, Zhonghua Wu, Hengcan Shi, Bjoern Picker, Winston Chong, Jianfei Cai
MICCAI 2023

Proposalclip: Unsupervised open-category object proposal generation via exploiting clip cues
Hengcan Shi, Munawar Hayat, Yicheng Wu, Jianfei Cai
CVPR 2022

Accurate and real-time 3D pedestrian detection using an efficient attentive pillar network
Duy Tho Le, Hengcan Shi, Hamid Rezatofighi, Jianfei Cai
RA-L 2022

Deep music retrieval for fine-grained videos by exploiting cross-modal-encoded voice-overs
Tingtian Li, Zixun Sun, Haoruo Zhang, Jin Li, Ziming Wu, Hui Zhan, Yipeng Yu, Hengcan Shi
SIGIR, 2021

Language-Aware Fine-Grained Object Representation for Referring Expression Comprehension
H Qiu, H Li, Q Wu, F Meng, H Shi, T Zhao, KN Ngan
ACM MM 2020

Query Reconstruction Network for Referring Expression Image Segmentation
H Shi, H Li, Q Wu, KN Ngan
T-MM 2020

Offset bin classification network for accurate object detection
H Qiu, H Li, Q Wu, H Shi
CVPR 2020

Scene parsing via integrated classification model and variance-based regularization
H Shi, H Li, Q Wu, Z Song
CVPR 2019

Boosting scene parsing performance via reliable scale prediction
H Shi, H Li, Q Wu, F Meng, KN Ngan
ACM MM 2018 (Oral)

Key-word-aware network for referring expression image segmentation
H Shi, H Li, F Meng, Q Wu
ECCV 2018

Hierarchical parsing net: Semantic scene parsing from global scene to objects
H Shi, H Li, F Meng, Q Wu
T-MM, 2018

Professional Activities (Selected)

Professional Memberships and Service

IEEE
ACM
CSIG
CAAI

Program Committee Member

ACM MM 2024 (Web Chair, Area Chair)
CVPR 2021, 2023, 2024
ICCV 2023
ECCV 2020, 2022, 2024
AAAI 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
IJCAI 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
ICML 2024, 2025
NeurIPS 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
ICLR 2023, 2024, 2025
ICME 2020, 2021
IROS 2024
ACL 2024
AISTATS 2025

Journal Reviewer

IEEE TPAMI
IJCV
IEEE TMM
IEEE TCSVT
IEEE TIE
Pattern Recognition
Neurocomputing
Remote Sensing

Students

2024

Monash University, Ph.D., Chenhui Gou
Monash University, Ph.D., Ziyu Ma
Hunan University, Master, Wen Liu
Hunan University, Bachelor, Haiwen Liang
Hunan University, Bachelor, Huihan Zhang
Hunan University, Bachelor, Kezhou Chen
Hunan University, Bachelor, Zixuan Zhao
Hunan University, Bachelor, Lu Liu
Hunan University, Bachelor, Xuning Yang
Hunan University, Bachelor, Ruiqi Zhang
Hunan University, Bachelor, Kerong Li
Hunan University, Bachelor, Hong Yin

2023

Monash University, Ph.D., Duy Tho Le
Monash University, Ph.D., Jiateng Liu
Monash University, Ph.D., Dao Duy Son (Graduated –> Postdoc at RMIT)

2022

Monash University, Ph.D., Renuka Sharma (Graduated –> Postdoc at CSIRO)
Monash University, Bachelor, Alistair McCutcheon (Graduated –> Software Engineer at Arkeus)

2021

Monash University, Master, Duy Tho Le (Graduated –> Ph.D. Candidate at Monash University)